"rain like cats and dogs" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: rains like cats and dogs [present, singular, third-person], raining like cats and dogs [participle, present], rained like cats and dogs [participle, past], rained like cats and dogs [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=rain like cats and dogs}} rain like cats and dogs (third-person singular simple present rains like cats and dogs, present participle raining like cats and dogs, simple past and past participle rained like cats and dogs)
  1. Alternative form of rain cats and dogs Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: rain cats and dogs
    Sense id: en-rain_like_cats_and_dogs-en-verb-sJ08KXyT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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